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Raz Butterfly Life Cycle
Life Cycle
A Reading AZ Level H Leveled Book
Word Count: 233
LEVELED BOOK H
The Butterfly
Life
Cycle
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The Butterfly
Life
Cycle
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Correlation
LEVEL H
Fountas & Pinnell
H
Reading Recovery 1314
DRA
14
caterpillar
egg
pupa
adult
butterfly
Table of Contents
The Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Egg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Pupa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Adult Butterfly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Egg
A female monarch butterfly
A caterpillar grows
it is on.
Do You Know?
Monarch caterpillars
only eat the leaves of the
milkweed plant.
The caterpillars bright black and yellow colors warn animals that
they will get sick if they eat it.
The caterpillar puts down sticky silk. The silk keeps the
old skin in place while the caterpillar wiggles out of it.
Pupa
When the caterpillar is grown,
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The butterfly breathes in air to make its body bigger. Then, the
shell splits so the butterfly can climb out.
While the butterfly hangs, it pushes liquid into its wings to make
them unfold.
Adult Butterfly
The pupa comes out of its shell.
It is now a butterfly.
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Most monarch butterfly wings are about 4 inches (10 cm) from
tip to tip.
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Glossary
butterfly (n.) an insect with four
wings that are bright
in color (p. 4)
caterpillar (n.) the larva of a butterfly
or moth (p. 5)
life cycle (n.) the stages of change
that an organism goes
through during its life
(p. 4)
mate (n.)
the partner of an
animal (p. 14)
pupa (n.)
an immature insect
in the stage between
a larva and an adult
(p. 10)
stages (n.)
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